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| EFFECTS OF RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION ON ANIMAL PLANT INTERACTIONS
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Edited By
Mark Hunter, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, U.S.A.
Takayuki Ohgushi, Shiga Prefectural Junior College, Shiga, Japan
Peter Price, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, U.S.A.
Description
Aimed primarily at advanced graduate students and professional biologists, this book explores the degree to which animal*b1plant interactions
are determined by plant and animal variability. Many of the patterns seen in natural communities appear to result from cascading effects
up as well as down the trophic system. Variability among primary producers can influence animal and plant population quality and dynamics,
community structure, and the evolution of animal*b1plant interations.
Audience
Researchers and graduate students in animal population biology, and evolutionary, community, and theoretical ecology.
Contents
M.D. Hunter and P.W. Price, Introduction: Plants as a Variable Resource Base for Animals. M.C. Rossiter, The Impact of Resource Variation
on Population Quality in Herbivorous Insects: A Critical Aspect of Population Dynamics. R.S. Ostfeld, Small Mammal Herbivores in a Patchy
Environment: Individual Strategies and Population Responses. A.E. Weis and D.R. Campbell, Plant Genotype: A Variable Factor in Insect-Plant
Interaction. B.J. Rathcke, Nectar Distributions, Pollinator Behavior, and Plant Reproductive Success. P.W. Price, Plant Resources as
the Mechanistic Basis for Insect Herbivore Population Dynamics. J.C. Schultz, Factoring Natural
Enemies into Plant Tissue Availability
to Herbivores. T. Ohgushi, Resource Limitation on Insect Herbivore Populations. J.R. Karr, M. Dionne, and I. Schlosser, Bottom-Up versus
Top-Down Regulation of Vertebrate Populations: Lessons from Birds and Fish. M.D. Hunter, Interactions Within Herbivore Communities Mediated
by the Host Plant: The Keystone Herbivore Concept. D.W. Roubik, Loose Niches in Tropical Communities: Why Are There So Few Bees and So
Many Trees? T.H. Fleming, How Do Fruit-and-Nectar Feeding Birds and Mammals
Track Their Food Resources? T. Inoue and M. Kato, Inter-and
Intraspecific Morphological Variation in Bumblebee Species, and Competition in Flower Utilization. J.M. Scriber and R.C. Lederhouse,
The Thermal Environment as a Resource Dictating Patterns of Feeding Specialization of Insect Herbivores. Each chapter includes references.
Index.
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 505 pages, publication date: JAN-1992
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-361955-6
ISBN-10: 0-12-361955-6
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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